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The Middle Awash area of Ethiopia is the most persistently
occupied place on Earth. Members of our lineage have lived,
died, and been buried there for almost six million years.
Now their bones are eroding out of the ground. Step by step they
record how a primitive, small-brained primate evolved to conquer
a planet. Where better to learn how we became human?
DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS MODELED IN RESIN. PHOTO: TIM D. WHITE
ROAD
THE
EVOLUTIONARY
by Jamie Shreeve